Posted on 01/24/2010 2:52:11 PM PST by Steelfish
Atheist David Miliband Sends Son To Faith School
David Miliband has been accused of hypocrisy for sending his son to a Church of England school even though he himself is an atheist.
By Alastair Jamieson 24 Jan 2010
The foreign secretary and his wife, Louise, have sent the eldest of their two adopted sons to a faith school more than one mile from their north London home despite living close to a secular primary. The headteacher of their chosen school is an outspoken critic of government education policy and does not support controversial tests for 10 and 11-year-olds.
Children should be taught Christian values, says new Archbishop The five-year-old took up his place in September even though Mr Miliband has previously stated he is an atheist. It is voluntary-aided, meaning it can discriminate in favour of parents who attend church.
Mrs Miliband, a violinist, started attending a church affiliated to the school two years before the boy gained his place. In contrast, the school nearest the Milibands, Primrose Hill Primary, is bound by Camden Council admissions policy and must accept all pupils regardless of their faith. Many parents are choosing faith schools because they achieve better results and appear to be improving further.
In the most recent league tables, almost two-thirds of the 329 primaries with "perfect" results were Anglican, Roman Catholic or Jewish schools. In 2007, faith schools made up only four out of 10 schools with "perfect" results.
Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, which seeks the abolition of faith schools, said: “Mr Miliband joins the thousands of parents forced into hypocrisy by the education policies of his own government.
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The wife is attending an affiliated church only to get the little darlings into the preferred school. Atheist dad probably $weetened the application as well. What a sham from all parties. Here’s hoping #1 son gets the calling.
Mrs Miliband, a violinist, started attending a church affiliated to the school two years before the boy gained his place
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Perhaps the Holy Spirit is at work here.
We have a similar case on FR:
To: AmusedBystander
“I would worry more about imparting that “godless” part on them, just in case you are wrong.”
Well, here’s the deal. The atheist I know don’t care what other people believe, nor do they try to dissuade anyone. My parents are both atheists, yet they sent all of their children, including myself, to Sunday School at the Presbyterian church near our home. Every Sunday.
I asked them about that recently. They’re 81 years old now, and are atheists (and Republicans). My mom said that they though it was important for us, as children, to be thoroughly exposed to the dominant religion of this country. She said that we’d make up our own minds when we were old enough to think about it.
She was right. I’m the only atheist among their children. I attended church until I was about 20...every Sunday, and sang in the choir, played piano and did other music at the church.
As a middle-schooler, I got a really nice award for having memorized the the first four chapters of the New Testament.
In fact, I was admitted to Wheaton College, with a strong chance of going into the ministry. But, I decided to become an Electronics Engineer, so I went to another school.
After a couple of more years, I stopped being able to believe in supernatural entities. That doesn’t mean that I lack moral values, though. I have the same ones you do, I’m betting.
49 posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:58:36 PM by MineralMan (godless atheist)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2436341/posts
forced? really? i see it as "settling..."
Ping Ping Ping... can you hear me now...
In your opinion then would we be or have been better off as an atheist country?
Wasn’t one of Bush’s speech writers from Wheaton College?
That was not my opinion, by the way.
I believe the Golden Rule to be the key to moral guidance, for any nation or people.
No idea.
The post was not mine, by the way. I was perusing through Rupert Murdoch articles the other day (Rupert is Australian, and there was an article about a Saudi Muslim buying up his company- Fox News), and found that mentioned in the archives.
in third world where i lived many Chrsitian expats went to Jewish schools or maybe Jews went to Christian schools whichever being the only decent choices..I know in Belo Horizonte the best school was Jewish....Santa Marta same thing..
in the South where I grew up all the tribe kids went to Christian private school...they got library time when Jesus speakers came...we had loads of them at Jackson Prep when i was there...maybe 8-10%...the public schools were 95% black war zones....we have one freeper here who survived it..he musta been pretty tuff kid
getting yer kid a decent booklearning transcends religion or lack of....this was easier before political correctness
Talk about Muslim friendly propaganda - they’ll make the main stream media look mean if that happens.
He is an ammoral unethical pos.
Wow, I didn’t know that.
Thanks for the warning!
Weird. He was always polite to me, and when we didn’t agree, we exchanged “Have a nice days.” I guess nutty people can have a nice day sometimes.
Coincidently, his moral values happen to be the same ones he learn in a Christian school, LOL.
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